Kris Versteegen

Just before suspending operations in mid-October, the Alpinist magazine editors took the time to award the Sierra Designs' Convert 2 tent with their final, prestigious Mountain Standards award. According to Alpinist magazine, The Mountain Standards reviews apply Alpinist's ...read more

The Sierra Designs product development team is making life easier in the backcountry with several new innovations in tent design. The same company that created the first ultralight tent, the Clip Flashlight, has come up with a new, patent pending pole design for its Meteor Light ...read more

With the fall foliage emerging and temperatures dipping, Fall climbing season has finally emerged in the Southeast. To celebrate, La Sportiva, the Italian performance mountain footwear brand, is stepping up their partnership with the Red River Gorge Climbers Coalition (RRGCC) as ...read more

La Sportiva®, the Italian Mountain Running® footwear brand, is pleased to congratulate the winners of the 2008 La Sportiva Mountain Cup. In the men's category, Shiloh Mielke took home $5,000 for winning the series while his sister Meadow Tarves took home the $5,000 women's ...read more

Boulder, Colo. (September 4, 2008) – La Sportiva®, the Italian Mountain Running® footwear brand, is proud to announce that the testers and editors of Runner's World magazine, the worldwide authority on running information, have honored the La Sportiva Crosslite with the ...read more

For spring 2008, La Sportiva increased sales of Mountain Running product by 30-percent over spring 2007. While much of this growth was due to new product introductions, like the Imogeneâ„¢ and the Crossliteâ„¢, existing product, like the Firebladeâ„¢, also contributed to the ...read more

On May 27-29, the sales, development and marketing teams gathered in Breckenridge Colo. to discuss new product developments, new technologies, sales strategies, and future opportunities. This was the second year in a row in which Sierra Designs hosted a carbon neutral sales ...read more

The La Sportiva Mountain Cup is a completely new race series that spans North America. The Rock2Rock 10K in Asheville, N.C., launched the 13-event series on Friday, May 30. Runners were treated to a well-organized race, a fun and exciting course, and high caliber competition. ...read more

Boulder Colo. – Sierra Designs has been pushing ahead with the brand repositioning initiated at Outdoor Retailer Winter Market with a new integrated, multi-channel marketing campaign that addresses outdoor enthusiasts from all generations. The company is getting its message of ...read more

Boulder, Colo. – Perhaps one of the best-kept secrets in American climbing, The New River Gorge, WV is home to some of the best rock climbing routes in the country. Every weekend, this destination climbing location regularly draws climbers from at least eight states in the ...read more

Boulder Colo. – For the second time in three years, Outside Magazine gave a Sierra Designs sleeping bag their annual Gear of the Year award thanks to the green innovation in the new Verde 20 sleeping bag. The Verde 20 uses 95-percent recycled material to create one of the most ...read more

Boulder, Colo. – If you were ever wondering how to get hundreds of climbers to sit still in a dark room for hours, here's the answer – The REEL ROCK Film Tour. Now in its third season and with 100 or more screenings of the world's best climbing films, REEL Rock is becoming ...read more

Boulder, Colo. – La Sportiva's team of climbing and mountain running athletes will head out to Las Vegas, Nev. for a weekend of climbing, running and clinics at the fifth annual Red Rocks Rendezvous, March 28-30, 2008. La Sportiva is sponsoring a wide range of clinics from ...read more

The Sierra Designs Down Bootie has developed into one of those truly indispensable pieces of gear for winter adventurers. They're like a devoted coffee drinker's favorite mug they never leave home without. In fact, if it weren't a fashion faux pas, most people would probably wear ...read more

Boulder, Colo. – The Appalachian Trail (the AT) stretches from Springer Mountain, Ga. to Katahdin, Maine over some of the tallest mountains and deepest gorges east of the Mississippi. It is the nation's longest marked footpath, at approximately 2,175 miles. This summer, La ...read more

Sierra Designs is proud to announce that Rock & Ice magazine has acknowledged the company with an important honor supporting the company's commitments to green business.Sierra Designs is the recipient of the Rock & Ice Sprout Award in the current issue (Issue #166, March, ...read more

Sierra Designs in-house “Green Team” pushes ahead on a daily basis to find new innovations that will lessen the company's impact on the environment. These efforts have led to many new and improved products under the Green Effects moniker that are garnering attention from ...read more

In late February, La Sportiva athlete Beth Rodden stood at the base of a slightly overhanging thin finger crack near Cascade Falls in Yosemite Valley, Calif. She began working the climb in front of her over four months ago, fighting through the tough Sierra Nevada winter to ...read more